4.1. Installing modified X server

Note for some video cards you can skip this part, before installing the modified X server check the video compatibility list,whether you need such one. Currently there are reports for working configurations without using a modified X server for Vodoo Graphics as primary and Vodoo3 or Nvidia TNT2 as secondary.

Probably you only need already rebuild binaries. If there are packages for your distribution you can install them, if not you have 3 more possibilities:

  1. Install prebuild, but not packaged modified X server and crate the necessary symbolic links.

    You can get such prebuild binaries from the backstreet ruby home page http://startx.times.lv.

  2. Help us (as well other people using your distribution) in building a rpm for your distribution.

    ( we lack system installed with all available distributions so we are not able to build packages for every distribution)

  3. To patch and rebuild XFree from source using the instructions at the backstreet ruby page

    in the Documentation section. http://startx.times.lv (or some of the mirrors) Documentation -> Quick XFree

note that currently there are two different modifications of the X server

  1. XFree86-4.3 prefbusid ( Prefered Bus ID)

    the new recomended patch/ binary

  2. just XFree-4.3/ XFree-4.3.patch

    which is the older one

    (in the rpm section *server-concurrent.*rpm

the new patch solves major problems for a number of Graphic cards, check the Video Compatibility list for details